Legislator's Comics Collection Not an Ethics Violation

[GrnMarvl14]

Source.

A critical controversy seems to have been averted in Tennessee this week, where a Republican member of the state’s House of Representatives has been cleared of any wrongdoing following questions about Majority Leader Jason Mumpower failure to report a comic book collection amongst his valuable assets.

Bruce Androphy, executive director of the state Ethics Commission, told the Associated Press that mandatory disclosure requirements for elected officials are meant to reveal financial investments that could pose possible conflicts of interest, and that “a comic book collection doesn't appear to raise those sorts of concerns.”

Bristol-based Mumpower, who’s seeking to become Speaker as his support grows within the new Republican majority in the Tenneessee House, is reported to have amassed more than 17,000 comic books, a collection he’s cultivated from the age of 12.

The revelation of Mumpower’s enormous comics collection comes days after Britain’s Telegraph reported that U.S. President Elect Barack Obama collects comic books featuring Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian.

“There are two things Barack Obama and I have in common,” Mumpower told Knoxville’s News Sentinal. “We both collect comic books, and we both have big ears.”

This could have gone in The Real World, but...I just like it here.

Anyway...this is just awesome. Don't know what can really be said about it, but it's nice to see comics getting politicians in trouble.

 

[Nekusagi]

Whoa... that collection...

And yeah, I knew about Obama being a comic fan. There seem to be a lot of them in government these days.

 

[Geodude]

17,000 comics. Wow.

Now all we need is a few gaming politicians.

 

[Doctor Oak]

Obama will probably attempt to portray himself as such over time, given that he used In-Game advertising as one of his campaign methods.

 

[Geodude]

Right, in Burnout Paradise, I forgot about that.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

I notice the article doesn't say if the comics are worth anything major or not. That could be the difference.

 

[Zeta]

Maybe he as 100 copies of the Action Comics where Superman was introduced? : p